This is an analysis of the poem Postskriptet I Aar Til Brevet I Fjor that begins with:

Tillad, høistærede Krigscommissarius!
At, mens jeg nipper til lidt Mad,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXccXXXXXXXdXXXX XXXXXX XXaXXX XXXefbXXXfgXX XdfXeXf eeXbeXXXX XX bXXXXXXXX XXgXXXXXXXX XXXXgXXhh XXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXfX XXXXXeXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXaXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,6,6,13,7,9,2,9,11,9,18,8,19,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010000 11110111 11100 110111110011 11110111110 110101 11011101 1101111 101111111 11110110 1101110101 110111 1100 1111011111 111100110 11111 10100011 1111111110 1111111 11010111010 1111011011 1111110 11000 100000111010 111000110111 11011101 1101011110 1111110001 10111110001 111100110100 101000111 11010011011 1000111 1100 1001100 010101111 110110 1001011 101 1101110111 01011110100 1101110100 11110111101 11010111 0110110 11011110010 111111101 111100000110 111111111110 1111 1101 111011101110 10101111111 101111101 11011111 11010111 11111 1001110 11011110001 10110101 1100 100 1 10 111100111 1110111101 110101111 01 01100011101 10001101110 11011111010 1011001110 111111111111 011111110 111111111111 111000110111 111 111010011 1011110101 100111000110 110111010110 11110111101 11000 1101011101 110010011 1110111010 1110101111010 1101101 111101111 1111111100 10011111 111101101111 11110111110 11010101 101110110 110111101 1000111100 1011101 1111001101100 1111111011 11001000010 1110011000 11110111101 111101111101 11011111010 11000101100 110010110100 111111111 1101101001010 111110011110 110011 1101110100 111101110 011001111010 110101 1110111 1111100 11110111101 1001110111 110011011 1101010011 1111111111 1101011110 11010010 11100011001 110111111 101111 11011 111111011 1101010101 1010001111 11110111 10111110011 1001011100 1111111001 11111110 110111110011 1110011111 111110111101 100111111101 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mig, i, jeg, med, min, de, og, at are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rd, ie, ver, lde are repeated).

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